commit 6a22985e22876351874d9d9687a0e44b3488f055
Author: Jonas Eriksson <jonas.eriksson@enea.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 1 13:30:50 2014 +0200

    utils_misc: Use re.split to do regexp split
    
    The .split() method of python's standard string type does not take a
    regexp as an argument, only another string. Switch to re.split().
    
    Signed-off-by: Jonas Eriksson <jonas.eriksson@enea.com>
    Upstream-Status: Pending

diff --git a/virttest/utils_misc.py b/virttest/utils_misc.py
index d63aaef..2396be8 100644
--- a/virttest/utils_misc.py
+++ b/virttest/utils_misc.py
@@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ def get_cpu_flags(cpu_info=""):
     if not cpu_flag_lists:
         return []
     cpu_flags = cpu_flag_lists[0]
-    return cpu_flags.strip().split('\s+')
+    return re.split("\s+", cpu_flags.strip())
 
 
 def get_cpu_vendor(cpu_info="", verbose=True):